The kind folks over at Privateer Press are at it again, teasing and tantalizing me. This time it comes in the form of a rather juicy web rework for their main site, complete with tidbits of information of the long-anticipated Iron Kingdoms Campaign Guide.

Apparently amongst such problems as routine editorial reworks and a pen-arm injury for their lead artist (Brian Snoddy, if I haven’t mentioned it before, is a badass), they’re also trying for D&D 3.5 compliance. Luckily they didn’t announce this two weeks ago, or I may have been rather upset with them. As you would know if you’ve been reading Dragon Magazine or rapid fanboy sites (I suppose this qualifies), there are some rather serious game-mechanism changes happening in 3.5, not all of which I am excited about. However, my generous employer is buying me the 3.5 rulebooks now, no money out of pocket, so I won’t have to blame the PP crew for forcing me to shell out $60.00+ for a new ruleset. I’ll already have had the new core rules for several months by the time IKCG comes out.

Speaking of which, there is additional information now available that projects a release this fall (“…we expect to be sending the book to press near the end of the summer, and shipping it shortly after that…” per their site yesterday). This should give my DM plenty of time to kill us off before I restart my Temple of Elemental Evil campaign. Work progresses, slowly, on the Iron Kingdoms conversion of that particular mega-adventure, along with ample samplings from the Lock & Load Character Primer, the Monsternomicon, and the Book of Vile Darkness. We’ll see how well some of my editorial decisions mesh with the new 3.5 ruleset and the IKCG. Only time will tell, as I keep saying.